KEY DATES

• Norman control of England under threat - December 1067
• Harold arrives in London - 6th October 1066
• Bishop Odo leads a rebellion against William II , he is defeated - 1088
• William led a raid in France - July 1087
• House of Godwin began - 1018
• Combined Anglo-Danish army arrives in York - 21st September 1069
• Harold sets off south to fight William - 28th September 1066
• Harrying of the North - 1069-70
• Edwin and Morcar revolt against William - 1068
• Danish fleet invades on the east coast - 8th September 1069
• Series of rebellions begin in the North - Spring 1069
• William pays the Danes to go away - December 1069
• William orders a survey of England - Christmas 1085
• Earl Edwin's lands forfeited - 1071
• Battle of Stamford Bridge - 25th September 1066
• William is crowned king of England in Westminster cathedral - 25th December 1066
• Uprising against Tostig - October 1065
• Battle of Gate Fulford - 20th September 1066
• William back in Winchester for Easter - 13th April 1069
• King Edward the Confessor married Godwin's daughter - 1045
• Heavy geld tax levied - 1084
• Another heavy geld tax levied - 1086
• Tostig sailed a fleet over to England from Flanders - May 1066
• William raises a large army to defend England from Viking invasion - 1085
• Harold leaves London - 12th October 1066
• Godwin dies. Harold Godwinson succeeds father as Earl of Wessex - 1053
• Uprising in York - William defeats rebels - February 1069
• Southern Fyrd disbanded - 8th September 1066
• Harold Godwinson hears of Hardrada and Tostig's invasion - 19th September 1066
• Tostig Godwinson became the new Earl of Northumbria - 1055
• Death of William - I9th September 1087
• Harold Godwinson crowned king - 6th January 1066
• Battle of Hastings - 14th October 1066
• William returned home to Normandy in triumph - Spring 1067
• William's fleet sets sail from Normandy - 27th September 1066
• Danish fleet returns to England and sets up on the Isle of Ely - 1070
• First drafts of the Domesday Book - August 1086
• Earl Tostig exiled - 1st November 1065
• Revolt of the Earls -1075
• Reign of King Edward the Confessor - 1042-1066